Climate Justice
Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future

my feelings about this book are very complicated! first off I don't think I am the intended audience, it's more for the uninitiated which doesn't mean it was bad it just didn't land for me personally. second of all I felt like I was reading a term paper which does mean it's bad or at least mediocre.......more

A quick yet important read. I started it this morning and just finished. Robinson, former President of Ireland, does a phenomenal job of painting a picture of the reality of climate change in a global context. My eyes were opened through the various personal stories of people experiencing climate cr......more

this book tells the stories of people around the globe whose everyday livelihood is affected by climate change. if you're looking for practical advice on lowering your carbon footprint, this book isn't going to tell you. but it will give you a lot of why power for taking climate change seriously and......more

This book was pretty terrible, especially in hindsight (it was published two years ago). Mary Robinson talks about how she never realized climate change was so important until her grandson was born and she realized he would have to deal with it all and might not have a world to inhabit soon. That s......more

I had such high hopes for this book. Incredibly important and relevant topic, but Mary Robinson just didn't seem like the right person to tell the story. Her writing was hard to follow, and was clearly the work of a privileged person telling the stories of those with less privilege. Yes, the stories......more